Malik Jefferson
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Experience: R
Height: 6-2
Age: 22
Weight: 241 lbs
College: Texas
2018 SEASON
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WK | OPP | RESULT | Total | Solo | AST | SCK | SFTY | PDEF | INT | YDS | AVG | LNG | TDS | FF | OPP FR |
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15 | Raiders | W 30 - 16 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
14 | @Chargers | L 21 - 26 | |||||||||||||
13 | Broncos | L 10 - 24 | |||||||||||||
12 | Browns | L 20 - 35 | |||||||||||||
11 | @Ravens | L 21 - 24 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
10 | Saints | L 14 - 51 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
8 | Buccaneers | W 37 - 34 | |||||||||||||
7 | @Chiefs | L 10 - 45 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
6 | Steelers | L 21 - 28 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
5 | Dolphins | W 27 - 17 | |||||||||||||
4 | @Falcons | W 37 - 36 | |||||||||||||
3 | @Panthers | L 21 - 31 | |||||||||||||
2 | Ravens | W 34 - 23 | |||||||||||||
1 | @Colts | W 34 - 23 |
Career Stats
Defense Career
SEASON | TEAM | G | GS | Total | Solo | AST | SCK | SFTY | PDEF | INT | YDS | AVG | LNG | TDS | FF | OPP FR |
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2018 | Cincinnati Bengals | 12 | 0 | 10 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
TOTAL | 12 | 0 | 10 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | NaN | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Biography
The second of two Bengals third-round picks, Jefferson adds speed and athleticism to Cincinnati’s LB corps ... Played three seasons (2014-17) at Texas, seeing action in 34 games with 30 starts, before entering the NFL draft after his junior season ... As a junior in 2017, was named Big 12 Co-Defensive Player of the Year, first-team All-Big 12 (coaches and AP), second-team All-American (AP) and a Butkus Award (nation’s top LB) semifinalist ... Career totals at Texas of 233 tackles, including 25.5 for losses and 12 sacks, along with six pass breakups, two FFs and a FR.

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Bengals Sign Third-Round Picks Sam Hubbard and Malik Jefferson
Hubbard and Jefferson signed four-year contracts

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Bengals Sign First-Round Draft Pick Billy Price
The Bengals today signed C Billy Price of Ohio State University, their first-round selection (21st overall) in the 2018 NFL Draft. The contract is for four years through 2021, with a team option to extend it by one year through 2022.

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Hobson's Choice: something old, a lot new
Tough sledding for rookies like cornerback Davontae Harris (35) when it comes to a deep defensive depth chart, but like many of the draft picks he can make the club in the kicking game and play a lot on special teams.

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Bengals Sign Three Try-Out Players
Bengals signed three try-out players who are all college free agents after rookie minicamp.

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Worley fitting right in
If you’re a Bengals fan, what is there not to like about rookie linebacker Chris Worley?

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Slants and screens: Price puts in full day despite injury; 3 more sign
The Bengals today signed three draft picks, including second-round S Jessie Bates, fourth-round HB Mark Walton and fifth-round CB Darius Phillips.

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Flowers, Worley lead CFA list
With the first of three rookie minicamp practices set for Friday afternoon, the Bengals announced the signing of 10 undrafted free agents. South Florida quarterback Quinton Flowers made the switch to running back and Ohio State linebacker Chris Worley (above) joined fellow Buckeye rookies Billy Price and Sam Hubbard.

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Rey of hope for Undrafteds
Vincent Rey, who has played more Bengals games than Carson Palmer and Andy Dalton, is the perfect guy to give advice to the undrafted rookies. Here it is:

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Hobson's Choice: walking the line in the draft
Bengaldom hopes their team walked the line well in last week's NFL Draft. They went offensive line in the first round and then in the last round. Mississippi's Rod Taylor waited a long time to get picked, but he may have enough versatility to stay around longer than that.

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Mike steps to the mike
Michael Johnson hadn’t even read Sam Hubbard’s name yet and he was already teaching him how to be a pro.

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Slants and screens: Original Gio welcomes Walton; Boling centers the pick

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Bengals 2018 Draft Class
Meet the 11 players selected by the team in the draft.

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Draft Recap: 5 Things You Need to Know
Five things you need to know about the Bengals 2018 draft.

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Notes: visits and voyages

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Shades of '12 draft gets defensive
It has kind of a whiff of 2012. The Bengals would love that, if this weekend’s draft turned out like that one since it yielded six starters or regulars and doubled the standard of three for each draft. It was a big lift for the 2011 team’s surprising play-off appearance and helped set the table for those five straight post-season runs. Like the ’12 draft, this one was defined by trades.

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'18 NFL Draft: Rd 2 & 3 Introductory News Conference Transcript
Bengals second-round and third-round picks Jessie Bates, Sam Hubbard and Malik Jefferson news conference transcript

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Defensive stand
We haven’t seen Teryl Austin much at all this offseason, his first as the Bengals defensive coordinator. But when he surfaced late Friday night in the media room with three of his position coaches from all three levels of his defense, it was a little bit clearer how he plans to take them to the next level.

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Third-round glance: Hubbard stays home; Versatile LB Jefferson adds speed

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2018 Day 2 Draft News Conference Transcripts
2018 Day 2 Draft news conference transcripts 4/27/2018